Rudd
/rʌd/noun
A freshwater fish of the carp family with reddish fins and golden-silver scales.
Did you know?Rudd belongs to a family of words descended from the ancient Indo-European root *reudh-*, associated with the color red, though the fish’s name itself developed through Germanic English.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*reudh-
“Red or ruddy-colored”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*rudōn
“A red-colored thing or fish”
Old English
Old English
ruddu
“The rudd fish, named for its reddish coloration”
Middle English
Middle English
rudde
“A freshwater fish with reddish coloring”
Modern English
English
rudd
“A freshwater cyprinid fish, Scardinius erythropthalmus”